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But the poor girl was as pale as a ghost.
“Not a wink, I’m afraid,” she complained. “Something was
sticking into me all night. Look—I’m bruised all over!”
When the queen saw that the girl had felt a tiny pea digging
into her through twenty mattresses and twenty quilts, she knew
she must be a real princess after all, and ran to tell her son that the
search was over.
“Only a real princess has skin so delicate,” she told him.
“A real princess at last!” he gasped. “Then if she likes me, we’ll
marry at once!
So the prince married the princess. After the wedding was
over the pea was put on show in the Royal Museum.
And if you don’t believe me, then go and see it for yourself.

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